Dance While You Can

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm not aging, I'm marinating. - Unknown

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Aging wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato